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Techtonica

Fire Hose Games · 2024-11-07

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 07, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 18, 2023 (Xbox One), Jul 18, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 07, 2024 (PlayStation 5)

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Techtonica is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $8.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 3267 reviews).

52
playing now
65%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
8
Nexus mods (3.4k downloads)
4.27★
PlayStation Store rating (671 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$8.99
steam price (US)

52 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Welcome to the strangely beautiful, bioluminescent, and mysterious sub-surface alien world of Techtonica. You’ll begin with only the basics for digging, mining, and resource production. Discovering everything in Techtonica demands unique equipment, power, and resources. Build specialized machines to optimize gathering and production as you arm yourself with the tools needed to go further and deeper.(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Techtonica trailer thumbnail

Techtonica - Official Release Date Trailer | Future of Play Direct 2023

≈10,923 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 52 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 199 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~25/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (631 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 65k–147k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,267 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 16 of 38 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
50550520232026Week of 2023-07-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 126 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

63132026-09-15 00:00 — 42 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 34 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 25 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 35 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 45 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 44 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 28 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 18 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 26 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 49 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 13 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 24 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 41 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 25 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 29 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 62 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 30 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 23 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 55 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 38 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 38 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 57 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 56 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 52 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1.7k43Jul 2023Aug 2026Jul 2023 — avg 1,720 · peak 3,442Aug 2023 — avg 480 · peak 1,619Sep 2023 — avg 204 · peak 599Oct 2023 — avg 193 · peak 580Nov 2023 — avg 136 · peak 294Dec 2023 — avg 355 · peak 1,076Jan 2024 — avg 419 · peak 1,046Feb 2024 — avg 162 · peak 361Mar 2024 — avg 313 · peak 797Apr 2024 — avg 246 · peak 714May 2024 — avg 189 · peak 388Jun 2024 — avg 156 · peak 343Jul 2024 — avg 129 · peak 248Aug 2024 — avg 93 · peak 233Sep 2024 — avg 60 · peak 160Oct 2024 — avg 45 · peak 110Nov 2024 — avg 559 · peak 1,534Dec 2024 — avg 267 · peak 633Jan 2025 — avg 195 · peak 399Feb 2025 — avg 131 · peak 268Mar 2025 — avg 110 · peak 196Apr 2025 — avg 101 · peak 225May 2025 — avg 98 · peak 195Jun 2025 — avg 65 · peak 134Jul 2025 — avg 99 · peak 276Aug 2025 — avg 96 · peak 203Sep 2025 — avg 82 · peak 164Oct 2025 — avg 94 · peak 219Nov 2025 — avg 88 · peak 188Dec 2025 — avg 95 · peak 200Jan 2026 — avg 94 · peak 206Feb 2026 — avg 63 · peak 129Mar 2026 — avg 53 · peak 120Apr 2026 — avg 45 · peak 120May 2026 — avg 45 · peak 111Jun 2026 — avg 43 · peak 81Jul 2026 — avg 62 · peak 134Aug 2026 — avg 54 · peak 147
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$29.99$4.792023-07-182026-10-092023-07-18 — best price $25.492023-08-28 — best price $25.492023-10-10 — best price $29.992023-12-04 — best price $23.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-02-21 — best price $23.992024-03-21 — best price $29.992024-05-06 — best price $23.992024-05-21 — best price $29.992024-06-27 — best price $17.992024-08-05 — best price $29.992024-11-07 — best price $19.792024-12-04 — best price $29.992024-12-24 — best price $29.992025-01-13 — best price $29.992025-02-17 — best price $11.992025-03-11 — best price $29.992025-03-31 — best price $9.892025-05-01 — best price $29.992025-06-26 — best price $9.892025-07-14 — best price $9.892025-08-20 — best price $9.892025-10-06 — best price $7.492025-11-18 — best price $29.992025-12-17 — best price $9.892026-01-08 — best price $29.992026-02-19 — best price $7.492026-03-19 — best price $7.492026-04-03 — best price $8.992026-05-13 — best price $8.992026-06-11 — best price $29.992026-07-10 — best price $7.492026-07-30 — best price $29.992026-09-04 — best price $29.992026-09-25 — best price $29.992026-10-09 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
79.7%
earned "Square Root"
36.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Dutch

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-07-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,9772%24
PS5 (PlayStation)44714%24

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opSandboxBuildingCraftingStrategyAutomationManagementSimulationExplorationMultiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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